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I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this show on Friday, January 21st, 2022, and Mander, I hate it one a weekend like this.

I mean, we lost two giants today, the singer Meatloaf, who died at the age of 74, and Comic Louis Anderson, who passed away from cancer at the age of 68.

Will you a fan of Louis stand up at all or yeah, you know, this tells you sort of when I grew up, but one of the big things for me besides, of course, is the animated show was his appearance in the very first episode of the Jim Henson hour, which I don't know if you remember that, but he did that great, my dinner with Codzilla, where he's on a date with with God's up.

So great. Now we're going to go back and look, it's on YouTube.

All right, I will definitely chase it. But yeah, you mentioned the animated show Life of Louis, ran on Fox 30 and episodes from December of 1994 through March of 1998.

And it's actually the voice, the title character in the show likewise is dead. On the other hand, we're talking Meatloaf.

I can't help but think you did that wonderful story for Collider in August of 2020, where you did sort of a great pop the hood of how Disney's animated a hundred of Notre Dame came together and everyone knows that the Tom Hulse eventually voiced the title character movie, but, but you, you had that great story about who they went to first.

Yeah, I mean, it seems like Meatloaf was really in contention for the part. Obviously, they talked to Mandy Batinkin, and that was also there was a big disaster.

But I think that would have been a great casting decision. I mean, he performed out there for them a few times.

Kills me. All right, you know, all day long, I've been hearing two out of three, eight bad and the meatloaf songbook, and it's just you know somewhere.

Somebody's got a recording of Meatloaf doing out there. Yeah, because they had to go back to the studio from that meeting with something to show the other folks. So it's like, where is that? Yeah, it also makes me long for a Jim Steinman Meatloaf Disney musical.

Yeah, we love, we love Alan Minkin, but just today on Good Morning America, they had Lynn Manuel Miranda on their sort of deconstructing. We don't talk about Bruno. And if it with this management team at this time, and a meatloaf and a Jim Steinman will come with those are absolutely sure. Let's do this. Right. Speaking of a hunchback, a friend of the show, Josh Gad, he's still out there trying to get his live action version of Disney's hunchback produced.

We kind of interesting here, Josh's taken on out there too. Yeah, I was on the phone with Alan Minkin a couple of weeks ago, but he did not. I think he said it still somewhere in the. Yeah, Minkin has so much stuff going on, including stuff with our friend, Josh, Gad, we've got beauty in the beast coming up. Yeah, but look at the casting, right?

I did, I did. So you have brought free the gentleman who played cosy Kingpin's loyal lieutenant from Hawkeye, Jalani, Aladdin, who played Kristoff in the original version of Frozen.

I think it was the summer before last when they did that world premiere staging.

And the music, right? Yeah, for for a few years, and he played the title role and I get a Roger Bart played Hades. And it's like, I want to see this.

But anyway, I really am behind on like, you know, I guess little time supposed to start shooting this spring, but that'll be for Disney plus. And didn't he just have a show debut on peacock last week, wolf like me? Yeah, it's great.

It's really really great. Yeah, not for not for the kids, but it's yeah, it's it's really wonderful. We went through the whole thing in two nights.

So all right, it's awesome. And also, did you see the announcement this week about Central Park? Central Park has been renewed for a third season, but that was in March of last year.

And season two began in June of last year, right? So I think that this upcoming one is actually the beginning of season two.

Okay, so I think brand new episodes debuting March 4th, but we we don't know.

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